Tesis (licenciatura en historia y geografía)--Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. / Bibliography: p. [81]-82.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Part of Thesis--Pontificia Universitas S. Thomae, Rome. / Includes bibliographical references (p. vi-xxiv).

The thesis is an ethnographic account of the belief system surrounding disease and curing among the Kuna Indians of San Blas, Panama. It is an attempt to describe this system in its own terms, and to interpret its meaning by attending to the various symbolic, ritual, and social contexts in which it finds expression. Above all, the ethnography strives to understand Kuna theories of disease causation and cure. Theoretical assumptions and methodological suggestions have been borrowed from the anthropological sub-fields of ethnoscience, symbolic anthropology, and sociolinguistics. The ethnography is loosely organized around the natural progression taken by the Kuna when they discover that someone has fallen ill, diagnose his illness, and then set about devising strategies for restoring him to health. Earlier chapters scrutinize the component parts of this belief system, and these are brought together in a synthetic manner in the penultimate chapter. The ultimate theoretical objective is to demonstrate that cultural symbols can only be properly understood when viewed within the natural context in which they are used. The final chapter deals with cultural and social change in San Blas, with special emphasis on the island of Ustuppu, over the past 70 years.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International. Available also from UMI Company.

Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 17, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Deborah M. Pearsall. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington. / Vita.

Thesis--Freie Universität, Berlin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-480).

Thesis (B.A.)--Bryn Mawr College, Dept. of Anthropology, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Political Science)--Vanderbilt University, May 2008. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.